Cinematic Canines [e-book]
Subtitle: dogs and their work in the fiction film
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New Brunswick, NJ
Language: eng
Format: e-book
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780813563572
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Wonder dogs / Adrienne L. McLean; title: Part one : Stars and featured players.; title: Answering a growl : Roscoe Arbuckle's talented canine co-star, Luke / Joanna E. Rapf; title: The dogs who saved Hollywood : Strongheart and Rin Tin Tin / Kathryn Fuller-Seeley, Jeremy Groskopf; title: Asta the screwball dog : Hollywood's canine sidekick / Sara Ross, James Castonguay; title: Promoting Lassie : the animal star and constructions of "ideal" American heroism / Kelly Wolf; title: Part two : Character and supporting actors.; title: Dogs at war : military dogs in film / Aaron Skabelund; title: Loaded dogs : dogs, domesticity, and "the wild" in Australian cinema / Jane O'Sullivan; title: Bullies and curs : overlords and underdogs in South African Cinema / Giuliana Lund; title: Things from another world : dogs, aliens, and antarctic cinema / Elizabeth Leane and Guinevere Narraway; title: Part three : Stock, bits, and extras. Hitchcock's canine uncanny / Murray Pomerance; title: The dog at the side of the shot : incongruous dog (Canis familiaris) behavior in film / Alexandra Horowitz; title: Afterword : Dogs at the digital divide / Adrienne L. McLean